Competent but complex communication: The phenomena of pheromone-responsive plasmids.

abstract：:Malaria parasites must undergo a round of sexual reproduction in the blood meal of a mosquito vector to be transmitted between hosts. Developing a transmission-blocking intervention to prevent parasites from mating is a major goal of biomedicine, but its effectiveness could be compromised if parasites can compensate b...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ramiro RS,Alpedrinha J,Carter L,Gardner A,Reece SE

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplasma phagocytophilum, the causative agent of human granulocytic anaplasmosis, infects human neutrophils and inhibits mitochondria-mediated apoptosis. Bacterial factors involved in this process are unknown. In the present study, we screened a genomic DNA library of A. phagocytophilum for effectors of the type IV s...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Niu H,Kozjak-Pavlovic V,Rudel T,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：2010-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that infection with SARS-CoV-2 can result in a wide range of clinical outcomes in humans. An incomplete understanding of immune correlates of protection represents a major barrier to the design of vaccines and therapeutic approaches to prevent infection or limit disease. This deficit...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Graham JB,Swarts JL,Leist SR,Schäfer A,Menachery VD,Gralinski LE,Jeng S,Miller DR,Mooney MA,McWeeney SK,Ferris MT,Pardo-Manuel de Villena F,Heise MT,Baric RS,Lund JM

更新日期：2021-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis is second only to malaria in terms of the global impact among diseases caused by parasites. A striking feature of schistosomes are their ability to thrive in their hosts for decades. We have previously demonstrated that stem cells, called neoblasts, promote homeostatic tissue maintenance in adult schis...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Collins JN,Collins JJ 3rd

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) is absent from humans but encoded in the Plasmodium falciparum genome, suggesting that PEPC has a parasite-specific function. To investigate its importance in P. falciparum, we generated a pepc null mutant (D10(Δpepc) ), which was only achievable when malate, a reduction product o...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Storm J,Sethia S,Blackburn GJ,Chokkathukalam A,Watson DG,Breitling R,Coombs GH,Müller S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of drug resistance, lack of an effective vaccine, and ongoing conflict and poverty means that malaria remains a major global health crisis. Understanding metabolic pathways at all parasite life stages is important in prioritising and targeting novel anti-parasitic compounds. The unusual heme synthesis ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rathnapala UL,Goodman CD,McFadden GI

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is a frequent complication in critical illness. The mechanisms that are involved in initiation and propagation of the disease are not well understood. Scavenger receptor A (SRA) is a membrane receptor that binds multiple polyanions such as oxidized LDL and endotoxin. Recent studies suggest that SRA acts as a pa...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ozment TR,Ha T,Breuel KF,Ford TR,Ferguson DA,Kalbfleisch J,Schweitzer JB,Kelley JL,Li C,Williams DL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide-binding, leucine-rich repeat-containing (NLR) class of immune receptors of plants and animals recognize pathogen-encoded proteins and trigger host defenses. Although animal NLRs form oligomers upon pathogen recognition to activate downstream signaling, the mechanisms of plant NLR activation remain large...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang J,Chen T,Han M,Qian L,Li J,Wu M,Han T,Cao J,Nagalakshmi U,Rathjen JP,Hong Y,Liu Y

更新日期：2020-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:To guide control policies, it is important that the determinants of influenza transmission are fully characterized. Such assessment is complex because the risk of influenza infection is multifaceted and depends both on immunity acquired naturally or via vaccination and on the individual level of exposure to influenza ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cauchemez S,Ferguson NM,Fox A,Mai le Q,Thanh le T,Thai PQ,Thoang DD,Duong TN,Minh Hoa le N,Tran Hien N,Horby P

更新日期：2014-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The bactericidal function of macrophages against pneumococci is enhanced by their apoptotic demise, which is controlled by the anti-apoptotic protein Mcl-1. Here, we show that lysosomal membrane permeabilization (LMP) and cytosolic translocation of activated cathepsin D occur prior to activation of a mitochondrial pat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bewley MA,Marriott HM,Tulone C,Francis SE,Mitchell TJ,Read RC,Chain B,Kroemer G,Whyte MK,Dockrell DH

更新日期：2011-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have evolved pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP)-triggered immunity (PTI) and effector-triggered immunity (ETI) to protect themselves from infection by diverse pathogens. Avirulence (Avr) effectors that trigger plant ETI as a result of recognition by plant resistance (R) gene products have been identif...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dong S,Yin W,Kong G,Yang X,Qutob D,Chen Q,Kale SD,Sui Y,Zhang Z,Dou D,Zheng X,Gijzen M,Tyler BM,Wang Y

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike for other retroviruses, only a few host cell factors that aid the replication of foamy viruses (FVs) via interaction with viral structural components are known. Using a yeast-two-hybrid (Y2H) screen with prototype FV (PFV) Gag protein as bait we identified human polo-like kinase 2 (hPLK2), a member of cell cycl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zurnic I,Hütter S,Rzeha U,Stanke N,Reh J,Müllers E,Hamann MV,Kern T,Gerresheim GK,Lindel F,Serrao E,Lesbats P,Engelman AN,Cherepanov P,Lindemann D

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrinsic oncotropism and oncosuppressive activities of rodent protoparvoviruses (PVs) are opening new prospects for cancer virotherapy. Virus propagation, cytolytic activity, and spread are tightly connected to activation of the PDK1 signaling cascade, which delays stress-induced cell death and sustains functioni...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bär S,Rommelaere J,Nüesch JP

更新日期：2015-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthrax poses a community health risk due to accidental or intentional aerosol release. Reliable quantitative dose-response analyses are required to estimate the magnitude and timeline of potential consequences and the effect of public health intervention strategies under specific scenarios. Analyses of available data...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Toth DJ,Gundlapalli AV,Schell WA,Bulmahn K,Walton TE,Woods CW,Coghill C,Gallegos F,Samore MH,Adler FR

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhalation of fungal spores (conidia) occurs commonly and, in specific circumstances, can result in invasive disease. We investigated the murine inflammatory response to conidia of Aspergillus fumigatus, the most common invasive mold in immunocompromised hosts. In contrast to dormant spores, germinating conidia induce...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hohl TM,Van Epps HL,Rivera A,Morgan LA,Chen PL,Feldmesser M,Pamer EG

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Future HIV vaccines are expected to induce effective Th1 cell-mediated and Env-specific antibody responses that are necessary to offer protective immunity to HIV infection. However, HIV infections are highly prevalent in helminth endemic areas. Helminth infections induce polarised Th2 responses that may impair HIV vac...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dzhivhuho GA,Rehrl SA,Ndlovu H,Horsnell WGC,Brombacher F,Williamson AL,Chege GK

更新日期：2018-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently characterized calmodulin-like protein is an endogenous RNA silencing suppressor that suppresses sense-RNA induced post-transcriptional gene silencing (S-PTGS) and enhances virus infection, but the mechanism underlying calmodulin-like protein-mediated S-PTGS suppression is obscure. Here, we show that a calmo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Li F,Zhao N,Li Z,Xu X,Wang Y,Yang X,Liu SS,Wang A,Zhou X

更新日期：2017-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a ubiquitous human herpesvirus, can latently infect the human population. EBV is associated with several types of malignancies originating from lymphoid and epithelial cell types. EBV latent antigen 3C (EBNA3C) is essential for EBV-induced immortalization of B-cells. The Moloney murine leukem...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Banerjee S,Lu J,Cai Q,Sun Z,Jha HC,Robertson ES

更新日期：2014-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The low pathogenicity and replicative potential of HIV-2 are still poorly understood. We investigated whether HIV-2 reservoirs might follow the peculiar distribution reported in models of attenuated HIV-1/SIV infections, i.e. limited infection of central-memory CD4 T lymphocytes (TCM). Antiretroviral-naive HIV-2 infec...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Samri A,Charpentier C,Diallo MS,Bertine M,Even S,Morin V,Oudin A,Parizot C,Collin G,Hosmalin A,Cheynier R,Thiébaut R,Matheron S,Collin F,Zoorob R,Brun-Vézinet F,Autran B,ANRS CO5 IMMUNOVIR-2 Study Group.

更新日期：2019-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and related lymphocryptoviruses (LCV) from non-human primates infect B cells, transform their growth to facilitate life-long viral persistence in the host, and contribute to B cell oncogenesis. Co-evolution of LCV with their primate hosts has led to species-specificity so that LCVs preferentia...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mühe J,Wang F

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Beyond their canonical roles in hemostasis and thrombosis, platelets function in the innate immune response by interacting directly with pathogens and by regulating the recruitment and activation of immune effector cells. Thrombocytopenia often coincides with neutropenia in patients with hematologic malignancies and i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tischler BY,Tosini NL,Cramer RA,Hohl TM

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Human noroviruses (huNoV) are the most frequent cause of non-bacterial acute gastroenteritis worldwide, particularly genogroup II genotype 4 (GII.4) variants. The viral nonstructural (NS) proteins encoded by the ORF1 polyprotein induce vesical clusters harboring the viral replication sites. Little is known so far abou...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Doerflinger SY,Cortese M,Romero-Brey I,Menne Z,Tubiana T,Schenk C,White PA,Bartenschlager R,Bressanelli S,Hansman GS,Lohmann V

更新日期：2017-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of DENV2 to display different morphologies (hence different antigenic properties) complicates vaccine and therapeutics development. Previous studies showed most strains of laboratory adapted DENV2 particles changed from smooth to "bumpy" surfaced morphology when the temperature is switched from 29°C at 37°...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lim XN,Shan C,Marzinek JK,Dong H,Ng TS,Ooi JSG,Fibriansah G,Wang J,Verma CS,Bond PJ,Shi PY,Lok SM

更新日期：2019-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania parasites are transmitted to vertebrate hosts by female phlebotomine sand flies as they bloodfeed by lacerating the upper capillaries of the dermis with their barbed mouthparts. In the sand fly midgut secreted proteophosphoglycans from Leishmania form a biological plug known as the promastigote secretory ge...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Giraud E,Lestinova T,Derrick T,Martin O,Dillon RJ,Volf P,Műller I,Bates PA,Rogers ME

更新日期：2018-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Abilities of bacterial pathogens to adapt to the iron limitation present in hosts is critical to their virulence. Bacterial pathogens have evolved diverse strategies to coordinately regulate iron metabolism and virulence associated functions to maintain iron homeostasis in response to changing iron availability in the...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pandey SS,Patnana PK,Lomada SK,Tomar A,Chatterjee S

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is characterized by a dysregulated host-pathogen response, leading to high cytokine levels, excessive coagulation and failure to eradicate invasive bacteria. Novel therapeutic strategies that address crucial pathogenetic steps during infection are urgently needed. Here, we describe novel bioactive roles and the...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Papareddy P,Kalle M,Sørensen OE,Malmsten M,Mörgelin M,Schmidtchen A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fatal human case of Duvenhage virus (DUVV) infection in a Dutch traveller who had returned from Kenya was reported in 2007. She exhibited classical symptoms of rabies encephalitis with distinct pathological findings. In the present study we describe the isolation and characterization of DUVV in vitro and its passage...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Koraka P,Martina BE,Roose JM,van Thiel PP,van Amerongen G,Kuiken T,Osterhaus AD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) is a human pathogen that causes acute and chronic pediatric diarrhea. The hallmark of EPEC infection is the formation of attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions in the intestinal epithelium. Formation of A/E lesions is mediated by genes located on the pathogenicity island locus of enterocy...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cepeda-Molero M,Berger CN,Walsham ADS,Ellis SJ,Wemyss-Holden S,Schüller S,Frankel G,Fernández LÁ

更新日期：2017-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestine is a common site for invasion by intracellular pathogens, but little is known about how pathogens restructure and exit intestinal cells in vivo. The natural microsporidian parasite N. parisii invades intestinal cells of the nematode C. elegans, progresses through its life cycle, and then exits cells in a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Estes KA,Szumowski SC,Troemel ER

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronavirus replication takes place in the host cell cytoplasm and triggers inflammatory gene expression by poorly characterized mechanisms. To obtain more insight into the signals and molecular events that coordinate global host responses in the nucleus of coronavirus-infected cells, first, transcriptome dynamics was...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Poppe M,Wittig S,Jurida L,Bartkuhn M,Wilhelm J,Müller H,Beuerlein K,Karl N,Bhuju S,Ziebuhr J,Schmitz ML,Kracht M

更新日期：2017-03-29 00:00:00